Making Room for Making Art: A Thoughtful and Practical Guide to Bringing the Pleasure of Artistic Expression Back into Your Life

Making Room for Making Art: A Thoughtful and Practical Guide to Bringing the Pleasure of Artistic Expression Back into Your Life
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Making Room for Making Art

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Practical and grounded advice for Artists

A Lot of Encouragement in a Small Package

Making Room for Making Art: A Thoughtful and Practical Guide to Bringing the Pleasure of Artistic Expression Back into Your Life
Sally Warner
Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
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Binding: Paperback

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This book offers constructive advice for artists who are becoming discouraged or feel stalled and those who yearn to rekindle their passion for making art. Several life-long artists in mediums as diverse as drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture share philosophies and outline strategies for remaining an artist despite chronic challenges such as financial worries, social pressures, family obligations, “day jobs,” and self-doubt. From setting up a studio and establishing a realistic work schedule to finding the right subject matter and reconsidering every option, Making Room for Making Art discusses important changes in attitude and offers practical suggestions on how artists can rediscover the pleasure of making art.

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Making Room for Making Art.......2006-11-11

A jump start, freeing, and practical approach to truly making your art a priority in your life. A very good read for anyone who is "stuck" or "uncommitted." I never underline in books. This one was an exception!

A must have.......2003-12-30

Wonderful book. I have read and re read many times and always find total inspiration. This is the artists' bible. Thank you for writing it.

Practical and grounded advice for Artists.......2000-09-21

"Society" often makes it difficult for artists to feel that their work is important This book is about taking resonsibility making room in your life for your art. The book is filled with insights from various artists and gives practical advice for artists at all levels. Also included are profiles of the artists and illustrations of their work. If you want to work at your art, Sally Warner's book sets a course for you that will undo even your most creative excuses of why you can't.

A Lot of Encouragement in a Small Package.......1997-12-21

I know what it's like to abandon your art. After being disappointment by slim vocational possibilities as a young adult, I tried to forget I even knew art. I tried to be what others wanted me to be and do. I floundered for ten years, even went back to college later to pursue a bachelor's in a different area. But no matter how much I'd shove my artistic bent into the recesses of my mind, it came gurgling back with a vengeance almost as soon as I got my degree in engineering physics. I made the decision to be true to myself. While still not employed as an artist, I consider no longer have qualms about considering myself one.

I wish I had this book when I was younger, or at least the chapter on dealing with external pressures. I connected so well to a lot of the stories related in this book. There are so many passages where I felt, "I felt that way!" An especially powerful subchapter for me is Perspective--Valuing your Art and Creativity more than Society does.

A minor complaint: I wish that the author had included more resources in the Artists Materials appendix, and had included the web page addresses to the businesses that were listed. If we truly are no longer at the mercy of the local hobby store, as Ms. Warner says, these are important. There's only one artist supply store and three framing companies listed; I've found several other artist supplies on the web that could have been included on this list; still it's good information for those who still like to do business by telephone.

I've got two years of junior college study as a commercial artist, but I'm a self-taught artist, and I'd recommend this book to anyone who was engaged in art study, especially to first-year students. With this book to guide them, if it turns out being a professional artist isn't in the cards, maybe young people won't be discouraged, like I was, and they can at least assess the extent to which they can take their talent without the debilitating loss of self-esteem, such as that which I suffered. Here's a book that says even if you're not a paid artist, you still are one, if deep in your gut you say so, and it tells you how to keep art out of the closet for good.

Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton
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Fascinating photos

Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton
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Now in Paperback "The practice of photography as we know it today would be all but inconceivable were it not for the remarkable innovations of Harold Edgerton."

-ARTnews A bullet seen the instant it explodes through an apple . . . a milk-drop splash transformed into a perfect coronet . . . a golf swing shown in a procession of exposures taken milliseconds apart0some of the world's most famous photographs were taken by Harold Edgerton, the late MIT scientist who invented the electronic flash. This great classic, first published in 1987 and now back in print in paperback, celebrates Edgerton's genius and his lasting influence on photography. More than 125 superbly reproduced plates illustrate the phenomenal range of his work, and Edgerton himself describes his efforts to capture the world in microseconds. Prizewinning author and photography historian Estelle Jussim discusses his profound legacy, and commentaries accompanying each plate explain the techniques used to create these exceptional images. HAROLD E. EDGERTON (1903-1990) was one of America's most acclaimed scientists, known not only for his high-speed flash photography but also for his lifelong explorations of underwater phenomena. He invented most of the sonar and camera equipment used by Jacques Cousteau and by the team that found the wreck of the Titanic. ESTELLE JUSSIM is photo historian emerita at Simmons College in Boston. GUS KAYAFAS was Edgerton's picture editor as well as his student. He is founder of the photography laboratory Palm Press, near Boston. 125 photographs, 25 in full color, 100 in duotone, 2 full-color gatefolds, 9 x 111/4"

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Fascinating photos.......2002-02-08

Many of these photos were familiar to me but I'd not realized all originated with the same person. The book is vaguely grouped into sports shots, everyday item shots, bullet shots, and high-tech science shots with other various photos strewn about.

I found the commentary on individual pictures to be informative and interesting. The introduction, however, seemed to wander into an essay about art movements in the mid-1900s and didn't provide information I wanted to know.

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Originated and sponsored by the Association for High Speed Photography. Reprinted from the 1997 Focal Press publication, this book forms a definitive work on the subject of high speed photography (HSP) and its many exciting innovations in commercial, industrial, and military applications. The material in this book moves progressively from an introduction to and development of HSP, to a detailed examination of illumination and image capture systems, data extraction and image processing in experimental procedures.

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Unusually intriguing Photographs
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A pioneer of high-speed photography, Stephen Dalton is one of the world's greatest nature photographers. These 250 astonishing images celebrate the birds, insects, mammals and countryside that Dalton appreciates as an artist, a scientist and a lover of wildlife.

The concentrated energy of the visual work is offset by the light touch Dalton brings to the accompanying text. Informative and engaging, he tells of the challenges of adjusting to his subject's schedule rather than following his own. But Dalton's greatest gift is revealing the adaptive genius of some of nature's most familiar creatures.

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Unusually intriguing Photographs.......2007-01-09

If you like really great photography presented in interesting ways, you will love this book! It is a great conversation starter and an excellent coffee table book. All ages really like it - our family has from 4 to 75 and we all love reading and enjoying the pictures in this book.

Alchemy of Time Frozen, Nature Revealed.......2002-07-31

Stephen Dalton is a master artist and naturalist of our time. His work produces living treasures of the beauty and wonder of life on Earth, and highlights the need to preserve nature against the destructiveness of human endeavours.

Dalton forces the viewer to stop in time with the subject photographed and see a moment as it can never be seen.

While there is joy and wonder is looking at Dalton's amazing photographs, there is also sadness in knowing that so many of these incredible creatures are going extinct.

Must-have, magnificent photos, fascinating facts.......1999-11-19

This is absolutely a must-have coffee table book for any nature lover. It is filled with spectacular color photos on glossy paper so clear & vibrant they pop off the page. Dalton's high-speed photography is pure genius.

Bats, birds, ladybugs, butterflies, dragonflies, bees & a vast array of other animals are captured in mid flight. The several frames of a chameleon lashing out its tongue to capture its prey are captivating.

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So So.......2007-07-06

This book is basically a collection of quotes from the band Members. It's nothing new really. It's also mostly ALL Lars quotes. If you love Metallica and are a collector buy the book & judge for yourself.

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Post-war America was an exciting time. It was an age characterized by backyard barbecues and beach parties, mai-tai cocktails and Ford Mustangs, high school hops, Hawaiian shirts and Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire. This book charts middle-class America's move towards an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license during the fifties and sixties.

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the social construction of American male consumerism.......2004-06-07

Ogersby illustrates how American men went from valorizing only hard work to enjoying and celebrating consumerism. He principly looks at the role that men's magazines Esquire and Playboy played in this phenomena. Still, he examines film, history, and other items caused this too.

This was a unique blend of history and cultural studies. For readers that look down on cultural studies as fluff, this book has much "concrete" information for them to appreciate.

I appreciated most that despite the all-encompassing title, the author both emphasizes that this was a middle-class white trend at the same time that he does write women and people of color into the picture. For instance, he mentions that Helen Gurlie Browne was the female Hugh Hefner; he adds that "Ebony" does much of what "Esquire" does. In discussing exotica, the author not only brings up the American fascination with Polynesia, but with Britain as well.

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The author is a British academic. It's funny to read a book about the United States with words like "programme," "colour," and "enrolment" in it. Further, I'm impressed that an academic outside the US had access to so much American material. An American who wrote a similar book on any other country couldn't have done so with out a sabbatical to that land.

This book may frustrate Marxists. The brief, somewhat flippant introduction tries to address this, but not really. Hearing about men spending money and buying butter (rather than guns) may make one think the author is celebrating this trend, rather than just reporting on it. Though this book is positive, rather than normative, some readers that resent American materialism may have difficulty processing through this book.

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